Word: complained
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...military alliance needs "hardware," and there is some nagging disagreement as to who should be NATO's chief supplier. The British complain bitterly that the U.S. is crowding them out of more and more arms deals, particularly with West Germany. "Tried and proved British weapons," cried London's Sunday Telegraph, "have been pushed out of Germany by political and economic pressure from...
...Reds really had little to complain about. The Cuba resolution, as the Senate report on it said, was "firm but not threatening." In effect it went along with the President's contention that the Soviet weapons in Cuba are "defensive" in nature. How formidable the military buildup has become was evident from an official report on what U.S. intelligence has detected so far. It includes twelve antiaircraft missile installations under construction, eight patrol boats carrying guided missiles with a range of n to 17 miles, and some 60 MIG fighter planes. At the coastal town of Banes, 60 miles...
...subordinates have no hesitation about confiscating newspapers and magazines that criticize the general, De Gaulle himself is magnificently unconcerned by adverse press comment. After listening to a Cabinet member's objections to a hostile newspaper article, le President observed: "If you are a minister, you do not complain about newspapers. You don't even read them. You write them." When an other Cabinet minister protested that a younger colleague was unscrupulous, intellectually dishonest and immoral to boot, De Gaulle cut him short with the observation: "That's comforting! I thought ministers were capable of nothing...
Conceding the necessity of spending for sheer survival, corporate executives nonetheless complain that the brightest young scientists are flocking into Government-guided work instead of into what Zenith Radio President J. S. Wright calls "the mundane world of household goods." Not only are the glamorous frontier technologies more challenging to inventors, but they are also more rewarding because of generous Government cost-plus contracts...
Consider the tattered state of Old King Cotton. To perpetuate 200,000 politically potent but economically inefficient small cotton farmers in the Southeast, the Government supports cotton prices at 33? a Ib. Since this is well above the present world price of about 23? a Ib., U.S. cotton exporters complain that they cannot compete in world markets. So the Government gives them an 8½?-a-lb. export subsidy. But this distresses U.S. textile makers, who must pay 33? a Ib. for their cotton and howl that they are being swamped by imported textiles made from U.S. cotton that foreign...